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NFL salary cap will be $133 million in '14

FILE - In this Jan. 19, 2014, file photo, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell walks on the field before the NFL football NFC Championship game between the Seattle Seahawks and the San Francisco 49ers in Seattle. Goodell made $44.2 million in 2012, according to tax returns the league has submitted. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum, File)(Photo: Matt Slocum)

The NFL's 2014 salary cap is set at $133 million, the players' association announced Friday.

That's a $10 million increase over the 2013 cap and the largest cap in NFL history, surpassing the $127.997 million cap in 2009, the last capped year under the old collective bargaining agreement.

Most teams carried over unused cap space from 2013, the union said, with an average carryover of $6.1 million for those teams. That puts the total spending power on player salaries for 2014 upwards of $4.4 billion.

That doesn't include more than $33 million in player benefits each team will spend in 2014, according to the union's release.

As of Thursday afternoon, only two teams — the Dallas Cowboys ($150.9 million) and Pittsburgh Steelers ($138.7 million) — would not have been in compliance. The 2014 league year and free agency begin March 11.

The 2011 CBA gives players 55 percent of revenue from TV deals, 45 percent of revenue from league properties and 40 percent of local revenue.

The agreement includes spending minimums of 89 percent per team and 95 percent league-wide of the cap in cash over a four-year period from 2013 to '16 and from 2017 to '20, combating teams who regularly left their cap space unused under the old deal.